YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES RELEASE: "THE MENU" ! Wednesday, November 16th at 7:30 PM at AMC Boston Common. RSVP HERE: https://searchlightscreenings.com/JoycesChoicesTHEMENU Synopsis: A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has [...]
What a dull summer at the movies. TOP GUN was a rousing entertainment-- just what I wanted to kick off the season. But I was soon disappointed by Jordan Peele's peculiarly flat horror-western-sci-fi mashup NOPE, despite a bunch of interesting ideas that never coalesced. NOPE took us back to the beginnings of film, [...]
HURRY! You are invited to a FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of Paramount Pictures release "SMILE"! Wednesday, September 28 at AMC Boston Common @ 7pm EST! Please RSVP HERE – seats are provided on a first come, first served basis! Synopsis: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences [...]
HURRY! YOU'RE INVITED TO A FREE ADVANCE SCREENING OF FOCUS FEATURES RELEASE: "YOU WON'T BE ALONE"! Wednesday, March 30th at 7 PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download tickets to this special advance screening of "YOU WON'T BE ALONE" please visit: https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/JoycesChoicesYWBA YOU WON'T BE ALONE Synopsis: Set in an isolated mountain [...]
HURRY! FREE ADVANCE SCREENING of the Searchlight Pictures release "THE NIGHT HOUSE"! MONDAY AUGUST 16, 7PM at AMC Boston Common For the chance to download complimentary passes to this advance screening please visit: “THE NIGHT HOUSE” (running time 1h 47m) MPAA Rating: [...]
This Sunday December 13, the BSFC gathered for a meeting like no other: 7 HOURS on zoom where we applied 2020 hindsight to the hundreds of movies we were able to screen online this past year. We discussed, and kibitzed, and argued and discussed some more as we VOTED our year-end winners in 15 categories. [...]
For a late October weekend-- two movies whose houses are haunted: REBECCA and THE NEST. I have always loved the original-- Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning gothic masterpiece REBECCA based on Daphne du Maurier's novel about wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) who brings his new wife (Joan Fontaine) home to his sprawling English country estate, [...]
These two films couldn't be more different and I liked them both-- one in spite of its being outright awful and ridiculous, the other because it pretty much accomplished what it set out to do. THE SECRET: DARE TO DREAM stars Katie Holmes as a down-on-her-luck widow named Miranda raising three kids when [...]
It's over! The winners of Oscars 2020 are in and it was an historic night. Here are the highlights and low lights beginning with the evening's BEST moment: ***PARASITE winning four Oscars including the first time in Oscar history that a non-English film, as well as a South Korean film, won Best Picture. [...]
The critics have spoken-- and women ruled the Boston Society of Film Critics awards! "Little Women," much of it shot in and around Concord and Boston, topped the list of winners at the 39th installment of the BSFC awards, 2019. We gathered all day Sunday, December 15 to vote the best in 15 [...]
